Does Sabrina Carpenter Support Israel?

Tal Feldman Feb 27, 2025 4 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, no. There is no public record of Sabrina Carpenter supporting Israel: no supportive statements, no performances in Israel, and no pro-Israel donations or event appearances. Her one documented action tied to the conflict points the other way, a reported May 2024 donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund made through Nicola Coughlan's fundraiser. She is not Jewish, and beyond that single gesture she has largely stayed out of the issue.

What Sabrina Carpenter has actually said and done

May 2024 (date approximate): Carpenter was reported to have donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund through Nicola Coughlan's Instagram fundraiser. The claim was circulated by entertainment journalist Stephanie Soteriou on X and by pop-culture accounts, with the fundraiser and its scale also covered by Goss.ie. This is her only documented action tied to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and it is a pro-Palestinian humanitarian gesture rather than anything directed at Israel. The exact date is approximate, since coverage of the fundraiser did not pin her individual gift to a specific day.
Late May 2024: For context on that donation, Coughlan's PCRF fundraiser had grown from roughly EUR 1.5 million to more than USD 2 million by late May 2024, drawn from over 100,000 donors, as documented by Images (Dawn). Mainstream coverage recorded the fundraiser and its total but generally did not name individual celebrity donors, so Carpenter's specific participation rests on journalist and fan reporting rather than a wire-service confirmation.
April 10, 2026: Carpenter made her Coachella headlining debut with an Old Hollywood themed "Sabrinawood" production of pop hits and celebrity cameos, reviewed by Billboard. That same headlining set featured a roughly seven-minute cameo by Susan Sarandon (whose agency, UTA, dropped her in 2023 over pro-Palestine remarks) playing an older version of Carpenter, a moment she reprised in her weekend-two set on April 17. Both Variety (with a separate column on the monologue) and Rolling Stone described the monologue as wistful, artistic and personal, not political and not about Israel or Palestine. Some pro-Palestinian social accounts read symbolism into the casting, but the set itself contained no political or Israel-Palestine content.
July 2026: Through the middle of 2026 there is still no record of Carpenter performing in Israel, issuing any statement on the conflict, or taking any pro-Israel action. A BDS-aligned activist database (a partisan site, not a news outlet) lists her as "complicit" and criticizes her brand endorsements, which means even pro-Palestinian activists do not treat her as an ally. On the other side, the pro-Israel group StandWithUs is reported to have shared a lighthearted clip of her acknowledging an Israeli fan at a show, which, if accurate, is a friendly fan interaction, not a political statement.

Is Sabrina Carpenter Jewish, and where the Israel talk comes from

Sabrina Carpenter is not Jewish. She was born on May 11, 1999, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and celebrity-ancestry trackers describe a European family background (German, English, Scottish, Austrian and Irish, with some Hungarian and Dutch). She has kept her personal faith largely private (she is commonly described as raised in a Catholic household), and there is no Jewish heritage or affiliation on record, so the common search "is Sabrina Carpenter Jewish" has a clear answer: there is no evidence that she is.

The Israel questions come from two things. The first is her reported May 2024 donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund through Coughlan's fundraiser. The second is the Coachella 2026 casting of Susan Sarandon, a vocal pro-Palestine activist whose agency dropped her in 2023, which activist accounts framed as a statement even though Variety and Rolling Stone reported that the actual monologue was artistic and non-political. Pulling the other way, the BDS-aligned site criticizes her over brand deals rather than praising her, which confirms she is not a boycott participant, and StandWithUs is reported to have shared a friendly fan clip. Netted out, her only concrete conflict-related act leans pro-Palestinian humanitarian, and she is otherwise essentially silent on Israel.

The bottom line

Sabrina Carpenter does not publicly support Israel, and she is not Jewish. She has made no pro-Israel statements, performed no shows in Israel, and given no pro-Israel donations. Her single documented action related to the conflict, a reported 2024 donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, leans pro-Palestinian humanitarian, and her Coachella casting of Susan Sarandon fed "pro-Palestine" interpretations even though the monologue itself was apolitical. For the most part she stays out of the issue, and she is not a BDS boycott participant. If the record changes, we will update this page.

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Last updated July 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.